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beauty; planted on the water level or even in shallow 

 water on the margin of a stream it will prove to be one of 

 the most attractive of plauts. M. dissitiflora is a niceflo- 

 riferous border plant with looser racemes, and flowers earlier 

 in spring. 



Alkanet, Anchusa tinctoria. — A low, diffuse herb with 

 deep blue flowers in twin racemes, flowering in early sum- 

 mer. Prettv in a rockery. A more desirable plant is 

 .1. Italica, which --rows to the height of three feet, forming 

 a broad mass. Flowers in panicled racemes bright bluish- 

 purple. Border. A. myosotidifloi'a ; rootdeaves reniforra 

 or cordate, quite large, stemdeaves ovate ; flowers deep blue 

 in panicled racemes. Rockery. 



Navelwort, Omphalodes verna. — A dwarf tufted plant 

 with ovate leaves: flowers intensely bine, white-eyed, in 

 se axillary racemes early in spring: very useful for 

 edging beds or borders. 0. ZtUcilicB is one of the finest 

 plants in the order; the flowers are about half an inch 

 across, lilac-blue, and appear in summer. A very beautiful 

 plant for shrubberies, in rich soil and half-shady positions. 



Hound's Tongue, Gynoglosmm linifolium. — An annual 

 with prettv white flowers in summer. Raised from seeds 

 sown in a border in spring. Also nice in beds and 

 rockeries. 



Comfrey, Symphytum officinale. — A plant with rather 

 large, oblong-lanceolate root-leaves and white or yellowish 

 flowers in curved racemes. Very floriferous. but not showy. 

 S. asperrimum has more showy, blue-purple flowers. Both 

 are best adapted to planting on grassy shores of rivulet- or 

 lakes in half-shady positions. Flower throughout summer. 



